Via Gary Price - Exalead, a major competitior in the 2nd tier search engines, has an incredible array of advanced operators to help sophisticated users refine queries. The offerings include:
An advanced search page with the ability to modify v...

Thanks to Brett Franson from Denver, who gave me the heads up on a search tool from the University of Indiana called CenSEARCHip. It allows you to look at the variations in Google search results between the US and countries that actively censor the results (France, China and Germany currently). I tried a search for Tiananmen and go...

I was recently doing some in-depth log analysis and came across with two search engines / bots: (mozdex and MJ12bot) that I find very useful and hope them the very best .The first bot belongs to mozDex...

Lately, I've been getting a lot more traffic from MSN than usual. And my Google referrals are down.
Comparing my server log data to my Google Analytics data (which is not much of a comparison at all), I am seeing agreement from both sources that MSN is now sending me about 11% of my referrals, whereas up until a couple of weeks of ago MSN only sent me about 7% of my referrals....

I got an invite to the new MSN AdCenter this morning and while signing up for a test account, came across this interesting piece:
Gender and age preferences is something new - and probably something very exciting for ad targeters. I think this is going to be the direction we ...

Mark Glaser, who runs PBS' MediaShift blog, wants your input on how video search from Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Blinkx, etc. is performing - what you can find, what you can't and how it all works.
Now maybe I’m searching for something that’s squarely in the hands of NBC...

For those in the world of link and traffic metrics who think Alexa is totally bonkers (I've actually found it to be relatively accurate for comparison use), there's an alternative - PubSub. PubSub offers aggregated data on link and popularity metrics for websites with blogs/feeds. They also have some cool subscription features based on the sites they track...
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Dogpile, the metasearch engine that is primarily known to SEO/Ms thank to their affiliation with Wordtracker (serving the primary portion of that firm's keyword data) is doing some product placement ads in primetime TV to help bolster their share of the search market. No word yet on whether it's working, but hopefully...

How can one man blog so much?
Acutally, the last time I hung out with Gary, he was whipping through data sources and maps and census information and a thousand sites I had barely enough time to jot down (despite spending almost an hour in front of his laptop in the San Jose speaker ready room). Gary is seriously obsessed with culling information and finding the latest in data aggregatio...

OK, folks. We've got a new contender to add to our list of social tagging / collective bookmarking sites. In SEO, the more the merrier, but in that industry, you're only as strong as your community. Shoutwire (the newcomer) is pretty...